Improving Lives and
Creating Value
Growth through transformation
Our acquisition strategy is comprehensive and integrated with business, technical, and support strategies to manage risks and meet the overall objectives. Our strategy guides execution across the entire system life cycle. Defined by the relationship between the phases, the work efforts, and the key program events such as decision points, reviews, contract awards, test activities, and operational development objectives. The strategy evolves over time and continuously reflects the current status and desired end point of the program.
Our acquisition team members craft realistic, robust, and executable strategies by helping articulate what the needs are then translating those into mission- or outcome-oriented requirements and adequately identifying the issues, risks, and opportunities that shape and influence the specific acquisition strategy for the given potential target.
Developing and executing an effective acquisition strategy requires advanced business systems thinking to ensure that the various elements of the process are integrated and that interdependencies are understood and accounted for during execution of our strategy. Our strategy is dynamic and it reflects changes that may occur during execution. Program managers need the insight to make informed decisions based on understanding the risks involved in achieving desired outcomes. Therefore, our systems and team members play a vital role in both planning and executing our strategy.
Our Best Practices and Lessons
Focus on that strategy
By avoiding the temptation to only focus on the acquisition’s current results aspect, we can create value in growth. This view tends to ignore other factors-including technical, cost and schedule – that influence a successful outcome and often have interdependencies that must be considered individually and collectively in the planning and executing the acquisition effort.
A targeted acquisition strategy typically includes several strategy elements that collectively combine to form the overall approach to fulfill our enterprise strategy. These elements tend to differ depending on the nature of the target acquisition’s nature and on our acquisition policies, procedures, and regulations.
An acquisition strategy is
not a single entity
Pick the appropriate target